How to make a flask website that generates dynamic google sheets - google-sheets

Question

I'm helping an organization out and they wish to have a website in which you input some numbers and a Google Sheets link should appear in which the numbers are put into some formula to give a result (i.e if you put in 5, 5, 3; (Num1 + Num2) * num3 it'd show a table in which the first two numbers are added then multiplied by the third:
Num1 Num2 Num2 Result
5 5 3 30
I have searched GitHub and the internet but I cannot seem to find a library that can create a Google Sheet from a website with given data input into a formula. Most stuff I found used the gsheet API and only modified an existing sheet. I found a Python (Flask) library called xlsxwriter and I was wondering if there is any way to convert an .xlsx to an online Google Sheet or if possible to just make a Google Sheet from my website.
(My website is in Flask as of right now but since I literally have no backend. If someone knows of a library that is in another web framework, I am willing to switch.)
Thank you, John D

Answer 1

Maybe I am missing something here but the regular Google Sheets API (which is available for Python) allows you to create blank spreadsheets with a specified title.
spreadsheet = {
'properties': {
'title': title
}
}
spreadsheet = service.spreadsheets().create(body=spreadsheet,
fields='spreadsheetId').execute()
print('Spreadsheet ID: {0}'.format(spreadsheet.get('spreadsheetId')))
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/create
https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples/blob/master/sheets/snippets/spreadsheet_snippets.py
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/python
Here is a more complete sample based on the Google Quickstarts examples:
from __future__ import print_function
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle! Adjust scopes as needed
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets']
def main():
creds = None
# The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
# created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
# time.
if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
creds = pickle.load(token)
# If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
if not creds or not creds.valid:
if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
creds.refresh(Request())
else:
flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
'credentials.json', SCOPES)
creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
# Save the credentials for the next run
with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
pickle.dump(creds, token)
service = build('sheets', 'v4', credentials=creds)
# Call the Sheets API
spreadsheet = {
'properties': {
'title': 'New Test Sheet 2'
}
}
spreadsheet = service.spreadsheets().create(body=spreadsheet,
fields='spreadsheetId').execute()
#print('Spreadsheet ID: {0}'.format(spreadsheet.get('spreadsheetId')))
spreadsheet_id = spreadsheet.get('spreadsheetId')
range_name = 'Sheet1!A1:D5'
body = {
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [
["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"],
["Wheel", "$20.50", "4", "3/1/2016"], # new row
["Door", "$15", "2", "3/15/2016"],
["Engine", "$100", "1", "30/20/2016"],
["Totals", "=SUM(B2:B4)", "=SUM(C2:C4)", "=MAX(D2:D4)"]
],
}
result = service.spreadsheets().values().update(
spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id,
range=range_name,
body=body,
valueInputOption='USER_ENTERED'
).execute()
print(result)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()